Patrick Cadle

“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
― Caspar David Friedrich

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.

The Man from Archangel”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories

“People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House

“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
― H. P. Lovecraft